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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-15
THE MARKETS.

CHICAGO, June a.
Quoetutions on the board Of trade to-day were
as follows wheat-No. June, opened 92c
bid, closed, 7494c; July. opened, sS34c, closed
75c; August opened 7sA4c, closed &c Corn
No June opened Sc, closed 3sssc nominal;
July, opened SC closed 37asc; August, opened,
&c. closed 39tS Oats-No . June opened
and closed 2lssc nominal July. opened 25a4c
closed 25s &c August opened e4asc, closed 24s4c
Pork-June opened and closed 5000 nominal
Lard-June, opened S. d2l4 nominal, closed Sc SIT
nominal
Live stock-From the Union stock yards the fol
ing prices are received Hogs Market opened
active and firm; about all Sold prices so. 1Oc
higher light grades, 81 75N520; rough packing,
81 75G 500; heavy packing and shipping lots, $50
6s5.32la Including 2,010 Texans; slow
beeves. s36ld4s0, cows, s20od-3a0 stockers
81 25e330 Sheep-Strong; natives, S3oo0D4.30
lambs, 81 25613 80 per head
Produce: Butter-Fancy Elgiu creamery, f6@
17c per H.; choice TO fancy dairy, 126t14c; fresh
packing 911lRc. Egg-Strictly fresh, 149 l4l1c
per doz Po,ltry-Hens 7l,c per 10; ROSTERS, &c;
spring chickens, 81 'Adl3.W per doE., according to
size Potatoes Burbanks and early rose. coca
81 90 per bu in car lots on track. Berries
Strawberries, Michigan, 5o@9oc per 16 qt case;
Ohio s1O01200 per 81 qt- case; blackberries,
S20O025O per "A qt. case; red raspberries 81 SO
Der u ut case
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-15
z PER GENT MoRTeAGEs-

Improved Iowa Farms. Security to 5 times the
loan. and inspected In each case Completed
loans always on hand for sale. sizee of loans
S20o to $4,000. Time Of loans years. only
choicest loans handled. References and detail.
given on application either in person or letter.
a. NJ. HENLEY, Attorney at Law.
IA Main ST.. davenport, Iowa
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-15

EoR SALE--A GOOD SECOND HAND
Buggy Harness. Inquire at this Office att
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-07-01
SHUCK TROTrER'S FOURTH
And How He Observed It-A Celebration
Under Difficulties.

And How He Observed It-A Celebration
Under Difficulties.
Shuck Trotter, having '4aid by" his
corn ON the third of July, was lifted into
such exultation by his maturing prospects
of good crop, that he decided to hold
sort of celebration on the Fourth.
Throughout the neighborhood of Lick
Skillet Shuck enjoys that peculiar leader
ship which certain oddities of character
frequently grant q man who lives in
backwoods community. Those oddities,
however, are never of an intellectual sort,
for, in Shucl1's neighborhood, a character
istic that is purely mental is always re-
garded as a weakness, while a certain
''prankishness," particularly an ability to
jump higher and dance faster than any
other man is italicized distinction.
The celebration at Shuck's house can
doubtless be given most appropriately,
and l am certain most entertainingly, in
the exact words of Zeb Finch, the brown
jeans beau of the "Lick Skillet neighbor-
hood:
''When Shuck come over whar l wuz or
cleanin' up some new ground fur er tur-
nip patch," said Zeb, 'an' told me er bout
the cily bration, l sorter hung fire er bout
goin'; but when he Flowed pine blank that
Liza Baker am the Jimison gals would be
thar, l told him that nothin' but er pow
erful mixture Nv the rheumatic an cramp
collie could keep me er way, an / meant
whut said, even ef Liza is fat, an not ez
pale ez the most Nv folks like to see a
gal. Wall, when l ariv at Shuck's house
1 seed that all the necessary preparations
had been made. 1t wuz too hot to stay in
the house, so a lot NV cheers an benches
had been put in the yard under or low,
spreadin' mulberry tree, that give thick
shade. Thar wuz er right smart sprink-
lin Nv folks, L tell you. Ole Uncle Nose
Gayner, that went to the Legislator last
year wuz thar. Uncle Nose amt much
bigger er round then er hoe handle, am it
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-07-01

word settled it with me right thar an ef
l coulder got holt Nv her hand 1 would
have sartinly squz it.
''I amt round thrown my steps er
way says Shuck, but ez we've all met
here to ciybrate the Fourth, here's az
you. Here, Zeb,' turnin' to me, pat for
me- l commenced to pat an he hoped
up an went at it. 1t wuz er sort NV Ingun
Dance with er lot Nv whoops scattered
through it, an the fust whoop Shuck
fotch he leaped up an struck the limb
whar Liza had hid the powder, am down
come the powder an wish may die dead
eff it didn't come slap dab into the pot Nv
fire. Thar wuz er bout or second befo'
any thing happened am then the cilybra-
tion tuck place sho nuff. The fust thing
sperienced wuz the earth sorter shakin' it
self, an then thar come er noise that
amt goln' ter furgit soon.
Somehow l WIZ permitted to see the per-
formance without talIin' much NV er hand
in it. Shuck an Uncle Nose peered to go
into partnership fur they went up in the
tree together, am it did seem like Uncle
Nose legs wrapped erround Shucl1 erbout
three times. Shuck's wife riz like er tur.
key-hcn aa' went over the fence, an Uncle
Noses wife, CT good-hcarted er ole soul ez
ever lived, WIZ Jest rolled erway like er
bar'l. The pore Gle lady squealed but KEEP
on er rollin'. The Unison girls fluttered
ever whcher way, am put me in mine NV
er lot Nv young patridges. But Liza
alas, bless her fat jaws, the powder,
findin' that she wuz so heavy it couldn't
pick her up, turned her round er time er
two, flutterei her over the fence an
started her off down the lane on er trot,
an she hadn't MORN got started good till
er watermelon cotch up with her an /
hope may die dead CT didn't jest mach
ully think it had knocked all the main
grace outen the dear crectur. Hoiler! l
never hearn er pore soul holler like she
did. run airter her an didn't llctch her
till she got TO the foot NV the hill. She
flung her lovin' arms round me an sobinly
cried: 'Ah Lawd, Zeb, who woulGer
thought that dinner pot woulder bustedr
When we all got ter gether ergin, Shuck,
seein' that nobody wuz killed, lowed that
the safest thing would be ter git down an
pray, am we gest nachully got down even
though we see1 the white SOW make cr
nuther break fur the milon patch. L ain't
axcd him but / jest nachu!lY think that
Shuclz has gone outen the ccicGra,!n' busi-
aes5" OrIE 7. READ.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-07-01

be gorgeous procession in the morning
creased pole and prize-races for the after
noon, and the fireworks in the evening;
but Tins interests, like Lady Bluebeard's,
all centered on the forbidden and unat
tainable.
where's Tina" said Mrs Spriggins, as
her husband came home late in the even
ing.
''At home and in bed, probably" replied
Mr.. Spriggins carelessly, 'at least l sent
the young rascal home two hours ago"
''rm sure he's not in," returned Mrs.
Spriggins decidedly. "Mary, go see if
Timmy is in bed"
Mary went and returned, reporting Tins
bed unoccupied.
''Great jumping horned spoonsr' ex-
claimed Mr.. Spriggins as terrible thought
flashed through his mind, ~ believe the
little villain has hid in the store, so as to
pry into that box of fire works. and the
very hairs of his head stood up in horror
at the idea of what might be happening.
1t was even so. Timothy had apparently
obeyed his fathers command, but, as the
night was warm, had found it an easy mat
ter to stink in at the back door and hide
under counter, until his father and the
clerks had departed.
His mischievous fingers fairly trembled
with delighted eagerness, as he lit a can
die and fitted it into an old lantern which
he had provided for the occasion, not wish
ing bright light, for fear of betraying
himself to the passer-by, and he wrenched
off the cover, which had been loosened dur
ing the day by the clerks, and there were
the treasures open to his longing eyes, and,
holding his lantern dangerously near, he
bent over them with itching fingers, but
only intending to satisfy his eyes, and then
creep out of the back window and return
home.
He never could tell just how it hap
pened, but probably in his excitement he
did not fit his candle properly into the
socket, and out it fell into q vacant space
in the end of the box, and fizz, tizz, whizz,
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-07-01
MEDDLESOME TIM.

The Story of n Miscellaneous Boys Pranlss
snow, Timothy" said Mr.. Spriggins at
the breakfast table, in an impressive man
ner, ''mind what l tell you, sir, and don'
you touch that box of fire works in the
store"
'Naw, SIR" mumbled Timothy, as he
munched his doughnut, and looked his
parent in the eye, to see how far the in
junction could be safely disregarded.
When Mr.. Spriggins said 'Timmy," his
dutiful son governed himself accordingly,
''Tim' brought him a little nearer the line
of obedience, but ''Timothy," in full,
usually meant business.
Tins ten digits were possessed with a
most unaccountable itching for mischief,
consequently he was nearly always in a
scrape of some description; only three
months before, when the new roof was
being tarred, he amused himself in bal
ancing on the edge Of the tar-barrel which
was only half full, until an unlucky lurch
landed him head first into it's sticky
depths, and his adventures might have
ended there and then, had not his father
opportunely turned the corner in time to
see the striped legs sticking up from the
barrel and in season to rescue him from
his perilous position. Tim's head felt
like buzz-saW, before he was through
the scrubbing, scraplng and shearin &
necessary to get the tar out OF his hair,
and ever. then one-half of his face was az
neatly colored as if a half of him hal been
born in Africa.
His next appearance was when the
painters, who were at work on the patcrnal
mansion, were gone to dinner; Master
Tim concluded to branch out u little on his
own account, and, keeping GroWler, the
family mastiff, still by means of sundry
bits of meat slowed away in his numerous
pockets, the embryo artist decorated the
long suffering dog with coat of colors in
zebra style, which were brilliant, if not
tasteful, thereby earning q thorough dust
ing of his jacket by his father, and num-
berless invectives from the workmen, who
spent the best part of the afternoon re-
pairing the damages.
Then there was the affair of the little
German twins, who were 50 exactly alike
that Mrs. Schmidt was obliged to tic blue
armlet on Hans and a pink one on Fritz,
to tell them apart. This was too rich an
opportunity for meddling to be lost, SC
Master Tim eIticed the babies into an
alley and replaced their armlets with cigar
ribbons exactly alike, and to this day il
has never been determined which one ol
the twins is the other.
"You dclls dot poy Of yours dot kill:
him right off gwick in two minutes if
efer catches him meddlin' nit mine dwins
no more pritty soonr' said Mr., Schmidt
in rage, as he shook his fist over Mr.
Spriggins' counter
With such record, is it surprising thai
the father felt the necessity of saying
"Timothy" with unusual gravity, as hC
thought of his unruly son in connection
with the box of explosives in the store
The average good little boy would have
gone on his way with no thought Of disc
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-07-01
BILL NYE'S SPEECH.

He Delivers n Characteristic and Patriotic
Orator.
FELLOW CITIZENS: 1t has now been one
hundred and eleven years since the most
successful and most prosperous republic
known thus far to his tory, sent forth upon
the sultry air it's first feeble cry. One
hundred and eleven years ago this morn
ing, the small red infant known as Amer-
can Liberty jammed her purple fists into
her watery eyes and made few desultory
remarks which were heard IN the utter
most parts of the earth.
To-day she is full-grown person with
a dlgnified mien, and has had statue OF
herself taken, which stands in the harbor
of New York and although she lights up
the country for miles around, with her
tall torch there is no one who has ever
been able to hold a candle to her in the
Liberty business.
Those who are to-day within the sound
of my voice, and who are over one hun
dred and eleven years OF age. will perhaps
recall to their minds the deplorable con-
dition of things here in our young and
struggling country at that time.
If we moved out West in order to Sc
cure more freedom, the venturc5om saw
age filled US full of arrows till we locked
like toothpicl1- holders, and when we came
back for protection, the naughty Brlton
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-07-01
The Coming Man.

Harpers' for june
The American man only develops
himself and spreads himself and grows
"for all he is worth" in the Great
West. He is more free and Timber
there, and unfolds those generous Pc
culiarities and largenesses OF bumani-
ty which never blossomed before.
The environment" has much to do
with it. The great spaces over
which he roams contribute to the en-
largement of his mental horizon.
There have been races before who
roamed the illimitable desert, but
they travelled on foot or on camelback
ard were limited in their range.
There was nothing continental about
them, as there is about our railway
desert travellers, who swing along
through thousands of miles of sands
and sagebush with q growing con-
tempt for time and space. But ex-
pansive and great IS these people
have become under the new condi-
lions. the Writer has fancy that the
development of the race has only
;ust begun, and that the future will
show US in perfection a kind Of man
new to the world. Out some where
on the Santa Fe route, where the
desert of Ole day was like the desert
Of the day before, and the Pullman car
rolls and swings over the wide waste
beneath the blue sky day after
day, under it's black flag Of smoke, in
he early gray of morning, when the
men were waiting their turns at the
abluticn bowls, a slip Of q boy, per-
haps aged seven, stood balancing
himself on bis little legs, clad in
knickerbockers, biding his time, with
all the nonchalance Of an old cam
paigner. "How did you sleep, cap?"
asked a well-meaning elderly gentle
men. "Well, thank you" was the
dignifed response; "as l always do
on sleeping car" Always does?
Great horrors Hardly out of bis
swaddling clothes, and yet he always
sleeps we'll in sleeper! Was he
born on the wheels? was ne Graded
in q pullman? lie has always been
in motion, probably; he was started
at thirty miles an hour, no doubt this
marvellous boy of our new era. He
was not born in a house at rest, but
the locomotive snatched him along
" ith O. shrek and a roar before his
eyes were fairly open, and he was
rocked in section" and his first
sensation of life was that of moving
rapidly over vast arid spaces, through
cattle ranges, and along canons. The
effect of quick and easy locomotion.on
character may have been noted before
but it seems that here is the produc-
ton of new sort of man, the direct
product of our railway era. 1t is not
simply that this boy is mature, but
he must be a different and nobler
sort of boy than one born, say, at
home or on canal boat; for whether
he was born on the rail or not, he be-
longs to the railway system of civil
ization. Before he gets into trousers
he is old in experience, and he has
discounted many Of the novelties that
usually break gradually On the pill
grims of this world. lie belongs to
the new expansive race that must
live in motion, whose proper home is
the pullman (Which will probably be
improved in time into dustless,
sweet-smelling, well aired bedroom),
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-07-01
Partition Notice.

O.C.No 91, March 1887 In re thepetition of
Jas D. Fowser for partition OF estate OF Sa'
rah B. Fowzer. decd.
And now to.wit, June 7, A. D., 1887. Ser
vice having been accepted tor all the heirs
and legal representatives of Sarah b. Fowzer
decd, except Henrietta pwzer, whose resi-
dence is unknown. On motion of Messrs
Williams & Mitchell the Court is requested
to order publication requiring the said Hen
rietta Fowzer to appear and show cause why
partition of real estate of Sarah b. Fowzer
should not be made accor ing to law.
WILLIAMS & MITCHELL, At'ys.
June 7, 1887, motion granted.
BY THE COURT.
THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENN'A, &C.
COUNTY OF BUTLER,
To Peter Kramer, High Sheriff Of Butler
We command you that you make
known by publication in one or
more of the weekly newspapers pub
lished in the county of Butler by
not less than three successive publications,
or by personal service of this writ, the con-
tents Of the foregoing petition and rule here
to be and appear before the Judges of our
Orphans Court at Batter on the 4th Monday
day of June, 1887, being the 9th day OF said
month, to show cause, if any she may have,
why the real estate Of Sarah b. Fowzer, decd,
should not be partitioned as prayed for.
Witness the Hon. Aaron L. Hazen, Presi-
dent Judge of our said Court at Butler, this
7th day OF June. 1887.
REUBEN MCELvAIN, Clerk.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-07-01
NO. 33

and whose domestic life will be on
the wing. so TO speak. The inter-
State Commerce Bill will pass
him along without without
friction from end to end of the Union,
and perhaps a uniform divorce law
will enable him to change his martial
relat 'ons at any place where be hap
pens to dine. This promising lad is
only faint intimation of what We are
all coming to when we fully acquire
the freedom Of the continent, and
come into that expansivenesS of feel
ing and of language which character
ICES the Great West 1t is u burst OF
joyous exuberance that comes from
the sense of an iIlimitable horizon. 1t
shows itself in the tender
words Of local news
paper at Bowie, Arizona, on the
death OF beloved citizen: "'D3 ath
loves a shining mark and she hit a
dandy when she turned loose on jim"
Aed also 10 the closing words of a
Naw Mexico obituary, which the
Kansas Magazine quotes: "Her tired
spirit was released from the pain
rackirg body and scared aloft to eter-
nal glory at 1870 Denver time" We
die, Us it were, in motion, as we
sleep, and there is nowhere any
boundary to cur expansion. Perhaps
we shall never egain know any rest
IS we now understand the term-rest
being only change on motion-and
We shall not be able to sleep except
on the cars, aud whether we die by
the Goth meridian, we shall only
change our time. Blessed be this
slip of boy who is man before he
is an infant, and teaches US what
rapid transit can do for our racei The
only thing that can possibly hinder
US 10 our progress will be second
childhood; we have abolished first.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-07-01

you will consent to take charge of such an
old bear as you have seen demonstrated in
your humble servant"
DR.. Parker assured him that if it were
his desire to put himself in his hands he
would do all in his power to restore him to
health.
sit is my earnest desire, my noble friend,
although l did tell you tonight that I'd
rather die than be saved by you. If you
had taken me al my word, Iwould be float
ing down the Ohio by this time. l owe my
life to you, and after your heroism tonight
/ would rather owe it to you than to any
man living"
Mutual confessions followed, and as it is
always easier to forgive those who injure
US than those we injure, DR.. Parker ex-
perienced no difficulty in burying the past
and giving the old man his hand in token
of reconciliation. All the long period of
deadly warfare was bridged by that one
nights noble work. DIR. Parker had full
filled his vow. He had saved his adver-
sary from a horrible death, and owned that
his revenge was sweet.
Cicely and the young doctor spent many
pleasant hours in each others society dur
ing the invalid's convalescence, and as the
Fourth of July, 1887, is to be celebrated by
their marriage, the people of Oakland have
settled the question as to why beautiful
Cicely Romans remained SO long un wed,
and why DR.. Parker should have chosen
the lot of an old bachelor when he could
have had picking choice among the fair
maidens of all the countryside.
BELLE Y. CHISHOLM
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-07-01

pedience; but Tim wasn't built that way,
and his fathers words only reused in him
burning and Unsuitable longing to see the
interior of the box; and he hung about the
store all day with alarming pertinacity.
Cant have one peep, paln said Tim,
imploringly.
mot peepi" replied Mr. Spriggins,
sternly; sit will be soon enough for you
TO see them when they are sent up from
the platform tomorrow night"
Stern parents have nipped young hopes
fond illusions in the bud before, but to tell
the truth, in this case the parent dared
not do otherwise, for Tim was like a trail
of gunpowder-give his curious desires
ever so little touch of qualification and
there was no knowing where it would end.
The following day was the Fourth OF
July, day dear to all lovers of noise and
confusion, and under ordinary conditions
Tim would have been happy boy; but the
unexplored wonders of that box stood
very Mordecai at his gate, and even fire.
crackers lost their charms. There was to
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-07-01
s-
AN ENEMY WON.
Returning Good for Evil-A Fourth OF
July Story.

Returning Good for Evi1-A Fourth OF
July Story.
For years a bitter feud had existed be-
tween the two leading physicians of Oak
land. At one time they had been intimate
friends, and young Dr. Parker had been
the acknowledged suitor of old DIR. Ro-
mans sweet daughter, Cicely.
1t was at a Fourth of July celebration
that the trouble arose, and the beginning
of the quarrel had its origin in very triv-
ial thing, too. Both men had been invited
by the citizens to participate in the eXer-
cises of the day, and in his address the old
doctor saw proper to take exception to
some statements made by the younger one.
Being something of Il politician, DR.. Parker
resented the liberty taken by his friend,
and then the old man in scathing words
denounced the ''young upstart who thought
to teach those who had forgotten mere
than he had ever known"
The idle tongues of the gossips were not
slow in repeating the comments made by
thoughtless persons, and thus, instead OF
the breach being healed, it grew wider and
wider DIR. Parker, though quick to re-
dress wrong, was the more generous and
even after hot words had passed between
them, came to his enemy and, frankly con-
Tossing his own fault, sought an amicable
reconciliation.
The old man, though the one to give the
first offense, was furious, and ordered his
antagonist to leave his house Immediately
and forever.
Strong as was the attachment existing
between Cicely and the young doctor, she
was too dutiful daughter to carry on a
clandestine courtship even if the honor
able young man had proposed such a
course. No formal engagement existed
between them, and when at her fathers
command, the letters she had received
were returned without one word of ex
PLANTATION, DIR. Parker quietly submitted to
his fate, more convinced than ever that
women were as tickle as they had been rep
resented.
Thus several years rolled by and the two
men were still estranged, and perhaps
would have so remained during life, had
not a circumstance brought them together.
1t was as follows: One dark stormy night
DR.. Parker was riding home as fast as the
rain which heat in his face and the slim
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-07-01
Enjoy Life.

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